Tuesday September 27: Orioles try to clinch both .500 season and 4th place finish

[OriolesMagic83]

At least Hall got some outs when Boston is treating our pitchers like batting practice. 

[spiritof66]

6 minutes ago, Bahama O's Fan said:

Aguilar? Really?

Aguilar is a veteran hitter. Count on him to take a few pitches, then hit a ball solidly through the IF, to the right side if they pitch him outside, for a couple of badly needed runs. A raw rookie like Stowers might be tempted to overswing, aiming for the wall or the RF corner. 

Oh, wait.

[spiritof66]

8 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Odor can be a rah-rah guy on the bench and give out the home run chain when O's hitters go yard. 

Great role for him: Custodian of the Chain.

[tntoriole]

What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

Edited September 28, 2022 by tntoriole

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, tntoriole said:

What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

The doomsayers expected that the pen would wear down and get exposed.

They lasted a lot longer than I thought they would.

I also don't get why they added Reed.

[Yossarian]

6 minutes ago, OriolesMagic83 said:

I'm too young to remember Belanger.  I assume that 90% of his 41 WAR was from his glove.

Fun fact:

Ozzie Smith is #1 all time for career defensive WAR. #2 - #5 are Belanger, Brioks, and Cal.

[dtk9119]

And now the offense has disappeared 

[eddie83]

If you guys think Hyde is playing Aguilar with no input from the FO I don’t know what to tell you. 

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, tntoriole said:

What we have in middle relief right now is a huge dumpster fire.. it gets masked over when starters can get us to Tate, Perez and Bautista ..but when starters blowup, we have absolutely nobody that can stop the bleeding.  Huge need for next season is much better middle relief. 

Inclined to agree.  There's a big delta between the guys you can trust and the guys you can't.  Krehbiel and Reed are guys that aren't that reliable right now.

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

1 minute ago, Yossarian said:

Fun fact:

Ozzie Smith is #1 all time for career defensive WAR. #2 - #5 are Belanger, Brioks, and Cal.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/WAR_def_career.shtml

[SteveA]

Yankees beat Jays, clinch AL East.

[eddie83]

Just now, Can_of_corn said:

The doomsayers expected that the pen would wear down and get exposed.

They lasted a lot longer than I thought they would.

I also don't get why they added Reed.

He will sent down tomorrow. 
 

I would rather see Gallagher instead of Nevin if Vavra can play defense tomorrow. 
 

I bet they regret not sending out Watkins but probably assumed Bradish would  be better. 

[RVAOsFan]

I don’t understand pulling Hall out. He is stretched out the pen is thin and he didn’t look bad. Why not ride him another inning or two?

[eddie83]

Just now, SteveA said:

Yankees beat Jays, clinch AL East.

Meaningless games this weekend for them except Judge watch. 

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, eddie83 said:

If you guys think Hyde is playing Aguilar with no input from the FO I don’t know what to tell you. 

I'm not so sure about that.  We need to give credit when credit is due, this isn't Syd Thrift's front office.  It feels good to say that our FO is pretty smart, I mean I just cheated The Sun paywall courtesy of @Can_of_cornand read an article about this pitching lab the Orioles have set up.  We're firmly in the 21st century when it comes to how baseball is looked at by a FO.

I don't believe they think that Aguilar is head and shoulders a better option over Stowers in all facets.  I think maybe Hyde liked a matchup better for whatever reason.